Photographs of Abandoned US Base, Greenland

With support from the American-Scandinavian Foundation and VisitGreenland, I spent a month photographing in Narsarsuaq, southern Greenland—once the site of a major U.S. Army base known as Bluie West One. Built during World War II and active through the Cold War, the base served as a waypoint for aircraft, weather surveillance, and Arctic strategy. Decades later, what’s left is a quiet sprawl of concrete ruins, gravel fields, and rusting equipment slowly giving way to moss and silence.

The photographs trace what remains: abandoned structures tucked against glacier-carved mountains, mist rolling through former landing zones, and interiors where shadows seem to remember the people who passed through. Some scenes feel like recent memory; others, like archaeological remnants of a different era.

This work isn’t about documenting military history—it’s about how place absorbs time. The landscape here is shaped by overlapping forces: geology, weather, and geopolitics. What drew me in wasn’t just what’s been left behind, but how it feels to stand in a space once shaped by global urgency and now governed by wind, light, and decay.